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Survey Demographics..................................................................................................................4
Survey Results.............................................................................................................................6
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Across the globe, company CEOs are hearing the same message...
go digital, or go the way of the dinosaur.
Consulting giant McKinsey, for example, recently internal and external collaboration, improved
wrote that “To stay competitive, companies must decision-making and more.
stop experimenting with digital and commit to
transforming themselves into full digital businesses.” In fact, with the explosion of data coming from point
Of course, for most companies a key part of a of sale and other demand points, social media, a
transforming into a digital business is creating the rapidly expanding number of connected “things” and
digital supply chain – and the pressure from the top to more, the ability to harness that data into actionable
do so quickly is ramping up. intelligence really may be the defining capability of a
digital business.
A PwC survey earlier this year, for example, found
88% of CEOs globally say that digital technologies And here, things are changing rapidly, with
provide “quite high” or “very high” value in terms technology leading the way, moving well past
of increasing operational efficiency – and that CEOs traditional reporting and even on-line dashboards
also committed to other digital strategies such as (though these are very useful) to flexible, interactive,
data mining and analysis, boosting their e-innovation user-driven capabilities that take analysis and insight
capacity, and improving decision-making. to entirely new levels – capabilities that are already
providing a digital competitive advantage to a few
All this of course begs the question, what does it supply chain leaders.
mean to become a digital business or digital supply
chain? There is not yet really an accepted definition, As Gartner’s Jorge Lopez recently wrote: “By 2020,
but we know what the key components are: mobility, more than seven billion people and businesses,
the Internet of Things, visibility, the Cloud, Big Data and at least 30 billion devices, will be connected
– and the ability to better leverage the information to the Internet. With people, businesses and things
the company often already has for insights, analytics, communicating, transacting, and even negotiating
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“By
2020, more
with each other, a new world With that in mind, Supply
comes into being – the than seven billion Chain Digest recently
world of digital business.” people and businesses, undertook a significant
survey of supply chain
and at least 30 billion devices,
Lopez continues: professionals to see
“Digital business is will be connected to the Internet. where they stand on the
the creation of new With people, businesses and things opportunities to craft
business designs by these next-generation
communicating, transacting, and even
blurring the digital data management and
and physical worlds. negotiating with each other, a new analytics platforms,
It promises to usher world comes into being – the world the level of capabilities
in an unprecedented companies currently have
of digital business.”
convergence of people, in place, and the priorities
business and things that [Jorge Lopez, Gartner] they are setting over the
disrupts existing business next few years. This report
models – even those born reviews the results of this
of the Internet and e-business survey data and concludes with
eras. What makes digital business a summary of what this means for
different from e-business is the presence improving and digitally transforming the
and integration of things, connected and supply chain.
intelligent, with people and business.”
Survey Demographics
Responses came from a wide variety of roles within followed by automotive, industrial or aerospace
the supply chain, both traditional operations-related (15.2%), transportation and logistics (9.6%), high
positions, as well as some from supply chain IT. tech/consumer electronics (8.1%), and retail
(6.1%). Responses from many other industries, such
There was also a wide mix of industries, but the top as chemicals, medical devices, pharma/bio-tech,
five were from consumer goods companies (19.3%), wholesalers, utilities and more, were obtained.
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Almost 58% of respondents were from the Americas, respondents were from companies with more than
primarily the US, but more than 42% were from $1 billion in annual revenues, and that probably
outside of Americas, split between the EMEA region understates the mix a bit, as some respondents
(19.2% of the total population) and Asia-Pac (22.8%). answered from a divisional or SBU perspective that
This represents a more truly global respondent base might have smaller revenues but be part of a larger
than SCDigest typically has for its survey data. company that has much larger sales.
Survey Respondents
28.9%
27.4% by Region
Under
$100 Over
million $1 billion,
less than
17.3%
14.2% $10 billion
12.2%
Over
$101 to $10
$500 $501 billion
million million to
$1 billion
We received responses from great companies across the globe, including the following:
UTC Aerospace Gullbrandsen Johnson & Johnson Philips Healthcare Wegmans Food
Johnsonville
General Electric Colgate Palmolive Bayer HealthCare RS Components
Sausage
McCormick
Toyota Edlyn Foods Siemens Healthcare DB Schenker
& Company
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Survey Results
Robustness of Current KPI Reporting Systems
The While some companies are still struggling with basic metrics and performance
Bottom Line measurement, excellence here is no longer a differentiator – more advanced
capabilities are now required to gain competitive advantage.
Basic
Very basic
27.9%
Some capabilities, not advanced
36.0%
Good, but not great capabilities
25.4%
Advanced Capabilities
10.7%
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Supply Chain Data and Analytics Capabilities by Region
In general, we did not find a meaningful level of while EMEA companies and Asia-Pac firms having
difference across the three geographic regions we roughly the same outlook, if somewhat different in
targeted. That said, on this question there were some the specific breakdown across the four categories.
differences across regions, with Americas companies
claiming to have the most advanced capabilities,
As noted above, there is far from a universal knowledge relative to supply chain analytics,
definition of what defines advanced analytics – and a while more than 45% say they have at most basic
lack of knowledge about the subject area in general. knowledge of this subject matter. It interestingly
This is not surprising given the relative newness of comes at a time when many companies have pared
these tools in the last few years. back their own operations research departments, but
may now look to expand back in somewhat different
As shown in the graphic below, fewer than 20% ways relative to data management and analytics.
of supply chain managers say they have excellent
High level Low level of
of knowledge knowledge
19.8% 15.7%
Above average 34.5% Basic knowledge
knowledge 29.9%
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What Characterizes Your Approach to Analyzing Supply Chain Data?
A critical difference between traditional KPI predict future supply chain behaviors and outcomes,
reporting systems and today’s data analytics is that and ultimately prescribe what course to follow to
the traditional approach – scorecarding – provides drive the optimal results.
a rearview mirror of performance: what happened
yesterday, last week, last month, last quarter, etc. We are very early in this game. While 23.4% of
Modern dashboards, on the other hand, provide a respondents indicate they are “aggressively building”
more real-time view of what is happening right now, these forward-looking capabilities, 36.5% said they
allowing supply chain managers to react to issues and were just getting started in this direction, and more
opportunities as they unfold. than 40% said they were still almost exclusively
backward looking when it comes to data analysis.
But we are rapidly moving towards an even more
advanced paradigm in which data will be used to
What is the Potential Value from Analytics that Identify and Predict
Issues/Opportunities?
While few companies are well down the path to characterized the opportunity as “good” - or a full
these forward-looking capabilities, the vast majority 88.3% combined. Only 11% are not that optimistic on
understand the value in doing so. In fact, 36% of the potential here for the supply chain, as shown in
respondents said they see such advanced capabilities the chart nearby.
as an “outstanding opportunity,” while another 52%
Minimal opportunity
2.0%
Some opportunity, but not great
9.6%
Good opportunity
52.3%
Outstanding opportunity
36.0%
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What is the Opportunity for Big Data in the Supply Chain?
Companies see similar bright opportunities for so better predict and understand demand. Transportation
called “Big Data” in the supply chain. SCDigest data is being leveraged by many companies to better
would argue that just as with advanced analytics, understand how actuals become degraded from
that term is less than precisely defined, and we the original plan, to improve driver safety,
have heard all kinds of analyses lumped do what ifs on potential logistics
under the Big Data umbrella. At the strategy changes, and many other
same time it’s clear that we have examples.
entered a new era.
27.4%
Outstanding
A combined 80.7% of
Retailers, for example, are 53.3% Opportunity companies see either
working hard to connect a Opportunity good or outstanding
Good
A key question of course is whether companies will almost overwhelming, while just 13.7% say it is quite
really be able to manage and take advantage of all manageable. The preponderance – 51.8% - are in
this data as it continues to explode – and that’s before between, recognizing the challenges in the amount of
the Internet of Things has really yet become a major data but believing it will be manageable in the end.
force. Trading partners are also increasingly making
supply chain data available, while a company’s ability We would just add that how manageable and useful
to access its own data – such as transportation-related the data is - whether it’s “big” or not – will depend
information – continues to improve. on the tools and processes that are put in place to
leverage it, combined of course with the skill of the
Might this flood of data prove too much to manage? people involved.
We would say the jury is still out on that one. More
than 34% of respondents say the amount of data is 51.8%
Data is
challenging,
but manageable
34.5%
Data is
almost
The Bottom Line overwhelming
13.7%
Even if unsure of the specifics, the vast majority of
Data is
respondents see big supply chain potential in Big Data, and quite
are optimistic that while there will be challenges, the huge manageable
amount of data being generated will be manageable in the end.
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How Flexible is Your Current System for Users?
We next asked respondents to evaluate their that managers want to be less dependent on IT to
company’s data capabilities in a number of areas. For provide the views and correlations they are looking
each, we provided a scale of 1-7, with seven being the for in the data.
highest and one the lowest. Rather than computing a
simple average, we thought it would be more useful
to group the responses, assigning a score of ‘”low” to Low: 1-2 Medium: 3-5 High: 6-7
1 and 2’s, “medium” to 3 through 5, and ‘”high” to 6 38.6% 53.8% 7.6%
and 7’s.
“...very few companies appear to have made major advances in the data
visualization challenge – and more than one-third of respondents say
their capabilities in this area are currently low.”
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Risk Analytics and CO2 Emissions Reporting Capabilities
We found similar results for capabilities around these days, we would expect capabilities in both areas
identification of supply chain risk and reporting to grow over the next few years.
on CO2 emissions, both of which had just 6% of
companies saying that they had high capabilities Of course C02 is just one of many measures of
in these areas, though more companies had a Sustainability, and we would expect most companies
medium level of capabilities in the supply chain risk will look to expand capabilities and KPIs across
identification area than they did for CO2 reporting. many measures.
Given their prominence in supply chain thinking
Low: 1-2 Medium: High: 6-7
Low: 1-23-5Medium: 3-5 High: 6-7
Low: 1-2 Medium: High: 6-7
Low: 1-23-5Medium: 3-5 High: 6-7
50.3% 50.3% 6.1%
43.7% 43.7% 6.1%
39.6% 39.6% 6.1%
54.3% 54.3% 6.1% 99 86
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CO2
Consistent with other data points from this research, analytics capabilities in
areas such as user self-empowerment, data visualization, supply chain risk
The Bottom Line management and more are still in general very immature.
Advanced data tools will also foster new and partners. Conversely, almost 54% rely primarily on
improved levels of trading partner collaboration. simply sending trading partners data on their past
How? By enabling a real-time, performance.
forward looking dialog – based
on real data for improved scenario 53.6% With the competition so fierce in every
Share basic
analysis and decision-making – rather metrics industry, supply chain leaders will move
than focusing primarily on past to become more strategic with leading
performance, which characterizes trading partners to make decisions that
most trading partner interactions 38.8% can reduce total supply chain costs,
today. Meetings with improve promotional effectiveness; find
key partner new opportunities to drive revenue gains
based on past data
That opinion is supported by the data, and more.
which shows just 7.7% of companies
have the ability to leverage real- 7.7% Data-driven analysis and “what if”
time data, scenario planning and Real-time capabilities will be central to that future
other capabilities when discussing collaboration collaborative state.
tools
future plans with key trading
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Areas of Biggest Potential Gains from Improved Data Management and
Analysis Capabilities
We asked respondents to rate a series of potential was “better decision-making,” which really in the
benefits on a scale of 1 to 7, with seven being the end is the key to all of this, with an average score
highest benefit and one the lowest, as shown in the of 5.6. Right behind was improved supply chain
graphic below. agility, followed by “finding hidden supply chain
opportunities.”
All the listed benefits scored highly, each well above
the mid-point average of 3.5, but coming out on top We would say the respondents got it just right.
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Areas of Greatest Opportunity
Becoming more “forward looking” topped the improvement area (though still with a score of 4.3,
list, with an average score of 5.6 on the same 1 well above the mid-point), but again we believe that
to 7 scale. That was followed by “connecting and this is because many if not most companies have
relating disparate data sources,” at 5.3, and improved created very good traditional supply chain metric
data visualization, with a score of 5.2. Improving systems over the last decade.
the “range of KPIs tracked” was the lowest rated
The consensus is clear – there is significant potential here to improve supply chain performance
through better data management and analytics.
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Priority of Making Improvements in Data & Analytic Capabilities
Capping that off, respondents made it very clear that “already doing it” in terms of building advanced
improvements in this area are a very high supply data and analytic capabilities – some 60% combined
chain priority – in part as an element of overall digital between the two responses.
business strategies, as discussed at the beginning of
this report. Just 3.6% of respondents said such
improvements were a low priority.
Almost 44% of respondents As for the 36% that suggest
said such improvements We Are 16.3% 3.6% Low this is an area of just modest
were a “high priority,” Already Doing It Priority priority – SCDigest
while another 16% said suggests you may want
their companies were High 43.9% 36.2% Modest to revisit that thinking.
Priority Priority
However, very few companies – generally well under Advanced analytics will without question be a
10% - say they are at advanced levels across a number cornerstone of creating the digital supply chain – and
of more advanced capabilities in this area, such the evidence says CEOs are hoping the supply chain
as user system flexibility and user empowerment, gets there fast.
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The Path Forward
Companies are facing the convergence of several • Provide high levels of data visualization
important mega-trends: capabilities to more powerfully tell the story that
underlies the data
• An explosion of new data sources, including • Enable a company and its trading partners to
social media, the Internet of Things, and inter- jointly view key information and use “what if”
connected supply chains. capabilities to explore opportunities for
• The rise of Big Data and advanced improvement
analytics to drive improved • Make data and analytics
business insight and “While
easily accessible on mobile
decision-making. as always it’s devices
• A growing corporate about people, process
focus on improving The first step to this
and technology, there is a
visibility across the data empowered supply
supply chain and certain binary aspect to this data chain world is to better
beyond to achieve opportunity: either your supply understand the possible,
greater agility and and how leading
chain has some of these more
speed of response to companies are taking
issues and opportunities. advanced BI capabilities or it their data management
doesn’t.” and analytics to new levels
Companies are also across every area of the
increasingly crafting strategies supply chain.
to push more data down to the
point of decision-making, with mobile Reports such as this and others from
technology playing a growing role, as industry analysts are one component
companies want workers to be able easily access the in this education, but here technology vendors,
data they need wherever they are, on the device of generally grouped under the term business
their choice. intelligence (BI) system providers, can also be a
valuable resource. From product demonstrations to
The supply chain of course presents a rich customer cases studies and site visits, SCDigest is
opportunity take advantage of these trends in data confident most companies will be pleasantly surprised
management and analytics, and this survey and by just how far this type of technology has come from
anecdotal evidence (conference presentations, trade leading BI providers.
magazine stories, vendor case studies, etc.) show a
growing number of companies are doing so. They are And here is the thing: while as always it’s about
developing capabilities that: people, process and technology, there is a certain
binary aspect to this data opportunity: either your
• Enable data from multiple sources to be pulled supply chain has some of these more advanced BI
together for a consolidated, holistic view capabilities or it doesn’t. So here, technology really
plays the key role in reaching a more advanced state.
• Allow end users significant flexibility to mine
the data on their own without going to IT for a But people and process of course play key roles as
new report – one key example is the ability to well, and are joined at the hip in many ways. This is
drill down and horizontally as part of root cause especially true because how to best leverage supply
analysis to supply chain issues chain BI is not always simply intuitive – how to gain
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maximum advantage needs to be defined, in many
instances, with detailed thinking about what data We know that many companies are moving
visibility and analysis are required to make certain aggressively down this supply chain BI path,
types of decisions. as part of an overall digital business strategy or
independently.
Some companies have formalized this process in
some areas into what are called “playbooks.” Such In either case, SCDigest strongly believes those not
playbooks, for example, might prescribe what to yet on this journey need to begin soon, with some
do in the case of a serious supply disruption: what sense of urgency. The level of capabilities in supply
information is needed to respond and where that chain data management and business intelligence can
information can be found. clearly deliver competitive advantage – or the reverse
for industry laggards.
Once a company understands what is possible today,
it needs to create a vision for supply chain BI and Such capabilities will not only provide better
of course a plan to get there, including building decision-making and agility, they will play a key role
the business case. Here, BI vendors and industry in attracting supply chain talent when candidates
consultants can again provide help – they will likely are exposed to advanced tools that will help them
have had experience doing just that across many succeed at their jobs.
other companies that can be leveraged in your own
company.
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